Josh Rageth is a 4th grade teacher, that has been teaching now for 7 years. In his first year, Josh began selling lesson plans on occasion for a third-party lesson plan site.
He took action, something we love to see! With our help and his consistency, his possibilities on his picture book membership site are endless!
What You’ll Learn:
* How to take action! (6:50)
* Launch 101 (8:00)
* The ins and outs of opening and closing the doors to your membership (10:35)
* Price points 101 (11:35)
* How to do something next level. (14:00)
* Every business has a lull period. (17:00)
* The importance of one-on-one calls (20:45)
* How to capture your un-tapped audience. (25:00)
* How not to make it too hard. (27:30)
* The biggest mistake that anyone makes in online business. (30:15)
* Great marketers have to look into the future. (34:00)
Show Notes
Two years ago Josh and his wife found out they were pregnant. They were already starting to figure out ways to make more money. However, that pregnancy was a very hard one on his wife and she ended up having to leave her job as a Special Education Assistant.
So in turn Josh had to double-down on selling lesson plans, so that he could provide for his family. Josh began making new week-long lesson plans for a different picture book every day! These lesson plans were made for existing books, he basically made these lesson plans for specific books. He did this for 223 days straight!
These lesson plans help teachers out. If the teacher needed a lesson plan on this specific book, they could buy his plans and they had all the activities for the entire week.
It started out with books that Josh was using in class. Then, he moved onto 1st - 3rd grade popular books, because that’s where picture books are most needed.
The lesson plans started giving him $2/month, then $10/month. Now, for about the last year Josh is making over $1,000 each month!
It took a large volume of traffic to get there. At $2.75 or $3 a piece, it takes a lot of sales to get that number! To do this, he utilize SEO and how to drive searches to him.
Josh was listening to a lot of podcasts about being a “teacher-preneur” and while talking to other people, he kept hearing people recommendation the Flip Your Life community. He spent his summer listening to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast!
Take action!
We saw Josh in our community posting about how he was taking action.
Josh joined the Flip Your Life community and within two weeks he had his membership ready!
He took the extra time he had during the Coronavirus pandemic, since he was teaching from home.
His goal was to launch before the school year was out, so he did just that!
It took a choice. Josh made a choice. He took action. He woke up early. He stayed up late. He did the launch, that’s why things are happening!
Launch 101
Josh had a list of 1,200 people when he first launched. Since then, he has been trying to grow that list through Facebook ads and is now up to 1,600 people. That a healthy email list, especially for just launching!
When Josh launched he also had 3 beta members. If he can find 3 he can find 300! They are there, he has proven the concept.
Josh started out by simply sending an email that said, ‘hey, I’m thinking about starting a membership site, click here if you’re interested.’ He got around 100 people saying they were interested!
So he thought:
“Okay, we have 100 people interested.”
“Let’s start making this membership site.”
